That may be why no one has tried to adapt Job directly as cinema. It's really not a cinematic story. If anything, it'd be a best suited to a comic book adaptation, perhaps something like Scott McCloud's more discursive mode.

A Serious Man, arguably (from reputation; I've only seen the dybbuk part so far).

I remember it too. Maybe we're from the Berenstein universe.

I doubt that you'll care for the second and third movies (The Road Warrior and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome), but you may like the first (Mad Max). Basically, it's set in a period when civilization is holding on, but starting to break apart, and is thus much more about that brooding feeling of fear over what's coming.…

It's been a very, very long time for me since seeing any of the first three, but I think you're likely right. It seems like the story George Miller really needed to tell.

I think it's a safe bet that, unless told otherwise, "coming to my burlesque show" is not the sort of support most people are looking for from their parents.

Sure! I'll just head down to Winnipeg and meet him by the tree.

I've actually found it sort of unexpected for it to have so many champions online. I loved it beyond all reason, but were there always so many people waiting for a crashingly bombastic barbarian opera? It really seems like something that would be more niche than it apparently is.

I'm actually kind of impressed that there are enough movies in that vein for you to be a fan of it and yet unaware of the first three Mad Max movies, as they were pretty popular the better part of a generation ago. Seems like movies about apocalypse and society gone wrong in general are a pretty rich thematic seam.

Man, "that's how it doesn't go!" is practically a Fry line. The comedic genius of kids.

Yes, basically. Archie would presumably be less self-conscious and playful about it, but Community is part of why I think this would work.

There's the old maxim that Westerns are a way for the US to look at itself, so I think you're entirely right that it's all about the hook (and, I would add, the subtext). Right now, I think that there's something of a continuing trend of demystifying the past; in particular, it seems to be a big thing these days to…

I think that there's a third way of sorts that could be pretty distinctive. See, one of the things I always liked about Archie, and that has been a pretty consistent aspect of the comics, is that the basic premise is both solid and elastic enough to dip into all sorts of genres and snap back into place. Archie…

It might have to be a childhood thing to get it. Archie comics were apparently a big part of how I taught myself to read. I read and reread them endlessly until I was sort of confused about what things came from what era (like, I was briefly wondering why I never saw any jalopies around ).

I've run into that argument elsewhere when I was researching the idea of racism being something that can only be practiced by a dominant group. It's basically what I've been relating here, i.e. that anyone can have racial prejudice, but only a member of a dominant group can really be "racist", per se. It doesn't…

I must say that that sounds awfully specific for a satirical fish fry. "COME STICK IT TO PETA (NOT FOR BEING VEGETARIAN OR VEGAN BUT INSTEAD FOR THEIR IRRESPONSIBLE APPROACH TO ACTIVISM)!"

I'm not sure what I think of the argument that it's not properly racism when a black person in the US does it either. I agree with the fundamental point, I think, but it changes the definition of the work somewhat beyond how most people actually use it. I guess this is largely semantic, but semantics can be…

Yeah, as much as people like to have fun talking about what's dead and what isn't, we're in the age where nothing really dies. I'm going to an Irish Ceili dance on Saturday. I'm in Ontario. There will always be someone keeping any given dance or musical style alive.

I'll bet Kieron Gillen would step up to the task if he had any free time whatsoever.

Po's character really hinges on Jack Black's acting. He could easily have slid into being annoying or arrogant or pitiable, but they get just the right tone for him.